This blog is dedicated to treating everyone - clients, prospects, friends, and family - as valuable partners. We should show them our gratitude through all our actions, including our marketing.

July 29, 2017

Pride

Pride, what does it mean to you? It should mean that you
take pride in yourself, what you do, and how you do it. It means that you have
pride in how you live your life. You do the “right thing”, each and every time
you relate to anyone, at work or otherwise.

It has been said that pride is the downfall of a person,
that pride will prevent someone from doing what they should because that action
might be demeaning or embarrassing. Who says? We should all do what is right, no
matter the consequences to us. Pride should not prevent us from making things
“right” for our clients, prospects, friends, family, or anyone else.

One definition of pride is “pleasure
or satisfactiontaken
in somethingdone
by or belongingtooneselforbelievedtoreflectcreditupononeself”. We
can easily take this definition and use it to reflect the satisfaction of doing
the “right thing” for those that we meet each day. Therefore pride would not
prevent, but would encourage, us to be better people. Just concentrate on the
“giving” and not on the credit for the act of giving.

If you need to ask what pride has
to do with Gratitude Marketing,
you have not been listening for the past many years. We just said that pride
would result in you doing what you should for others. Practicing Gratitude Marketing means that we treat everyone as we would want to be
treated. Therefore, pride and Gratitude Marketing
go hand in hand for better relations with others.

One should be very careful not
to allow pride to prevent us from completing the 5th law of success as
detailed by Bob Burg and John David Mann in “The Go-Giver”. The 5th
and final law is: Give, get, repeat. In other words, give to others, get from
others, and then repeat the process.

None of us should let our pride
get in the way of enjoying the gifts of others. For every giver who gives to us
without asking anything in return, there must be a taker, or receiver, to
complete the process. If there is no one to receive a compliment, the giver is
without anyone whose day will be better, and the giver is left with a vacant
spot in their life.

If we let our pride get in the way of accepting something
that is given to us by someone else, we have violated the 5th law of
success, and we have prevented someone else from being able to give to us. We
have just broken the equation of giving. For every giver there must be a taker,
or receiver, and we can be that person.

Therefore, we find that pride can be the trait that encourages
us to “do the right thing”. That means everyone that we meet, with whom we do
business, or with whom we interrelate in any manner. Also we know that pride
will allow, not prevent, us from enabling the 5th law of success: give,
get, repeat, by not preventing us from accepting the giving efforts of others.

Don’t let your pride get in your way; let your pride enable
you to be a giver, and a receiver, enabling the betterment of others as well as
the well-being of yourself. Look at each opportunity as it arises and see if
you can practice Gratitude Marketing every day. Remember that everything that
we do will return to us in some way, some day; that’s karma.

Have a comment or question? Please leave them here, or email
me at Jim@SOC4Now.com, or call me at 360-314-8691. I always appreciate your input and will attempt to answer
you in an appropriate, grateful manner.